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Nolan M. Kennedy has practiced law on the Monterey
Peninsula since 1973, primarily in the areas of business
transactions, business and non-profit organizations, real estate
and health care law. He has written and lectured extensively in
legal areas and is co-author of the chapter on Options in Real
Estate Transactions, published by the California Continuing
Education of the Bar. Mr. Kennedy is active in the local
community. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey
County Property Owners Association, serving two terms as
president. He served 11 years on the board for the Carmel Bach
Festival, and is a past board member of the Monterey Peninsula
Chamber of Commerce and Volunteers in Action among other
community organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of the
Monterey County United Way, and was Chair of the Board for
2004-2005. Currently, he is a member of the State Bar of
California and the Monterey County Bar Association, for which he
served on the Executive Committee, and the American Health
Lawyers Association. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Baylor
University in Texas and the University of California Hastings
College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Kennedy received the
Order of the Coif, and was a member and managing editor of the
Hastings Law Journal. |
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Daniel F. Archer has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula
since 1988. Mr. Archer's primary areas of practice cover
commercial transactions, including real estate acquisitions,
dispositions, development and leasing, construction, commercial
lending and joint ventures. Mr. Archer is a graduate of
California State University at Sacramento (B.S. 1985) and Santa
Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1988). While in law school,
Mr. Archer was an editor of the Santa Clara University Law
Review. In 1987-1988, Mr. Archer clerked for The Honorable Nat
Agliano, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal,
Sixth District. Mr. Archer is a member and former board member
of the Rotary Club of Monterey, was a founding board member of
the Monterey Peninsula chapter of the American Heart
Association, and is a member of the State Bar of California, the
Monterey County Bar Association and the American Bar
Association. |
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| Jon R. Giffen has practiced law in Monterey County since 1996 after moving from San Francisco, where he specialized in civil defense litigation with the firm of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Mr. Giffen specializes in all aspects of trial practice in the fields of casualty, employment, public entity defense, products liability, business and real estate litigation. Mr. Giffen currently serves on the court-appointed arbitration panels in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Mr. Giffen is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and Santa Clara University Law School. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Monterey County Bar Association and is a member of the State Bar of California, the Santa Clara Bar Association, the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel, the Monterey Defense Research Institute and the Rotary Club of Monterey. |
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Richard K. Harray came to the Monterey Peninsula and practiced as a trial lawyer from 1968 to 2003 when he retired. He returned to active practice in December 2008, and is currently engaged in trial work, primarily in business disputes, corporate and partnership dissolutions and other complex litigation matters. He started his own firm in 1977 as Harray & Rosecrans and ultimately merged his firm with Kennedy & Archer in 2001. Mr. Harray litigates in the fields of business disputes, medical, legal and design malpractice, municipal law and employment issues. He is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. 1964) and Stanford Law School (LL.B. 1967). After law school he served as law clerk to Justice Roy Gargano, California Court of Appeal, 6th District. He has served as a judge pro tem, arbitrator and mediator. The American Board of Trial Advocates named him as an advocate in 1991. Mr. Harray is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to the U.S. District Court, Northern California. |
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| Stan
L. Linker has a wealth of
experience as a trial lawyer, having tried over 150 cases throughout
California's Central Coast. Mr. Linker has litigated cases in both
state and federal court (including mass tort, multi-district
litigation). Mr. Linker's practice emphasizes insurance defense,
design professional law, construction defects, products liability,
public entity and business law. Mr. Linker is a past board member
of the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel (ADC), and
a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of
California and the Monterey County Bar Association (Treasurer, 1983;
Executive Committee, 1980). He is a former member of the Monterey
County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1985-1986), California
Trial Lawyers Association (board member, Board of Directors,
1985-1986), Salinas United Way (Board of Directors) and Salinas Host
Lions Club (officer and board member). Mr. Linker is a graduate of
California State University, Fresno and McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While in law school, Mr. Linker was a member
of the Moot Court Honors Board. |
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David W. Balch is a graduate of Columbia University and the Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude). While in law school, Mr. Balch received the Order of the Coif, and he was a member and articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. In 1995-96, Mr. Balch clerked for Judge Frank Magill of the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Mr. Balch has significant experience with large, complex commercial litigation, having spent six years in big firm practice in New York City, first with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and more recently with O'Sullivan LLP. Mr. Balch moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 2002 and has worked at Kennedy, Archer & Harray since then. Mr. Balch’s practice emphasizes complex litigation and all aspects of trial practice in the fields of casualty, public entity defense, and business and real estate litigation. Mr. Balch is a member of the State Bar of California.
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Gregory E. Bullard is a graduate of California State University, Fresno (cum laude) and McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While in law school, Mr. Bullard concentrated on tax matters and clerked for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, local Sacramento law firms and for the University. Mr. Bullard was admitted to the California State Bar in 1998. While practicing for nearly ten years in the Central Valley of California, Mr. Bullard specialized in civil and business litigation and transactional matters including tax, employment, real estate, business formation and dissolution, education, agriculture, family law, and public entity and insurance defense. In 2007, Mr. Bullard and his family relocated to the Monterey Peninsula. He is a member of the Monterey County Bar Association, the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada and is active in the local community. His practice focuses on civil litigation, including the defense of tort claims involving personal injury, construction defect, business contract disputes, public entity defense and family law. |
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| W. Stuart Home, III graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. He graduated from the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific in 1991 and was admitted to practice law the same year. While in law school he was a member of the Traynor Moot Court Competition. Stuart began his law practice in Sacramento where he practiced for sixteen years. His first seven years of practice focused on matters involving general business litigation, transactional work, estate planning and civil litigation. During that time, he became interested in construction defect litigation and decided to make it the emphasis of his practice. Since then he has defended developers and subcontractors in complex construction defect cases. Throughout his career, he has arbitrated and tried numerous cases. While in Sacramento, Stuart was actively involved in the Sacramento County Bar Association and served as its President in 2005. He has served as a delegate to the California State Bar Conference of Delegates and chaired the Sacramento delegation to the Conference as well. In 2004, Stuart had an opportunity to move to a ranch near Salinas, California where he and his wife Audrianne and his four children currently reside. |
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